Un Gazaoui avoue avoir étranglé sa soeur

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A man has confessed to strangling his 23-year-old sister to death in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, police told a rights group.The woman’s body was brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the early hours of Friday morning, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in a statement.Police told PCHR the woman’s father and two brothers were arrested on suspicion of murder, and one of her brothers confessed to strangling her to protect “family honor.”According to a 2011 survey by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, some 73.6 percent of never-married women in Gaza have been exposed to violence by a family member.Of these women, 92.4 percent were sexually abused and 71.2 percent were physically abused.